So lately I’ve had several book recommendations here and in other subreddits for novels or audiobooks that sounded great, but when I pursued them, I found these were young adult novels. Despite long discussion threads, no one mentioned this.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the occasional YA book. But it seems like something people should mention it is YA, like you might mention if something was softcore. It makes me wonder: Is this is not a big deal to people? Or do people not even realize these are YA?
The most recent was Red Rising, which was suggested as an audio book recommendation. One comment mentioned that they found this after looking for something like Game of Thrones . This is a fun book, and the audio narrator is great, but it is definitely YA and nothing like Game of Thrones, lol.
Anyway, just a thought…
by davevr
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I think the problem is that people that will recc young adult novels see them as just as good as adult novels, whereas the people who actively don’t read YA novels think the exact opposite. So this means it’s only a problem for one side of the equation, but luckily Goodreads is pretty good about tagging novels YA so that’s the easiest way to find that out IMO.
No.
Just give any recommendation you get a quick little google or just accept that sometimes people recommend a variety of genres and you might occasionally get one you don’t care for as much.
It’s helpful when people say what genre a book is in, but why in gods name would that be necessary when you have unlimited resources to figure that out.
I mean, this might be a wild suggestion, but try just asking the person who recommended it what genre it’s in.
Edit: I also wouldn’t identify something as softcore unless that was relevant to the recommendation. I’m assuming that the person receiving this recommendation is either adult enough to handle it or can simply deduce this type of information for themselves.